I made a quick tool to see how kids would react when they use it.
safari 7
The Safari 7 Reading Room Open House is on Sat Nov 7
Safari 7 is a self-guided tour of urban animal life along New York City's No. 7 subway line. Traveling from Manhattan's dense core, under the East River and into Queens, the nation's most ethnically diverse county, we hope you can use Safari 7's resources to better understand the complexity, biodiversity, conflicts, and potentials of our urban ecosystems.
I am going to this open house for my inspiration.
1 comment:
Hi Chika,
I am very interested in your idea of exploring the ways that Mongolian nomads lifestyle differs from ours. I agree with you that we lost some of our connection to nature when we created new technologies for making us more comfortable (central heating and air conditioning) and for getting from one place to another (cars and planes, etc.). Of course, I am quite sure that very few Americans or Japanese would trade their lives for that of a Mongolian shepherd. But if there was a way to package a small aspect of their lifestyle that would not require us to give up on our comfortable lives, I think that many people would like to try it. Please tell me more about the little optical device you sketched. Are you saying that this is a mini-planetarium, where you get to experience the amazing view of the night sky that you get when you are in the middle of the desert, far away from any lights and miles from the closest village? I had that experience once on a camel safari in Rajastan, India. At night in the desert, you get a very nice but somewhat sad feeling of being part of the earth and of nature, but being only a very small part. I think that if you could develop a product that gave people a taste of that, it would be very popular. What do you think? It's very important that you make a quick decision about the product you want to make, so I recommend trying to develop the star viewer. Please tell me more about that.
steven
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